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‘Completely And Utterly Unacceptable’: AOC Slams Biden For Breaking Campaign Promise, Keeping Trump-Era Refugee Cap

Ian Haworth
‘Completely And Utterly Unacceptable’: AOC Slams Biden For Breaking Campaign Promise, Keeping Trump-Era Refugee Cap
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On Friday, President Joe Biden decided not to raise former President Trump’s “historically low cap” of 15,000 refugees for this year. Biden’s announcement reverses his stance on the issue, having recently promised to raise the cap to 125,000 refugees for the year.

Instead, Biden removed the restrictions put in place by the Trump administration on which “types” of refugees qualify under the cap of 15,000.

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